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RGB Effects builder for Chistmas Animations
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Enhancement: multi-cell copy/paste in tables #62

Open SteveGase opened 11 years ago

SteveGase commented 11 years ago

Here is a request for improvements wrt multi-cell copy/paste.

Places where this would really help: 1) copying a series of effects to a point later in the song 2) copying a series of effects to another model -- maybe staggered to a later point with the song 3) copying/pasting within the channel assignments list

If I could copy existing xLights/Nutcracker tables to the clipboard -- where I could use Excel to rearrange and manipulate the data -- then paste the new clipboard contents back into xLights/Nutcracker tables, it would be very cool.

JonB256 commented 10 years ago

Steve, I had a need for something like this last week. I had created a very nice set of 7 sequential effects events, all nicely timed. But I wanted to "paste" all 7 farther down the sequence, a total of 4 times. (so the 7 effects would have become 35 total)

So, what I needed (wanted) was the ability to copy all 7 effects, then Paste them at a start point I'd create. But, I wanted it to calculate the correct times for the following 6 entries.

I tried doing in an XML editor but trashed it badly. :) It should have worked since I used a calculator for the times and manually entered it, but Nutcracker was not happy with my edited file. My first use of the "Backup" feature.